New York, Jan. 27, President Wilson to-day began his speech-making tour through the States on behalf of the Government's programme of national pre-poredness.
Addressing the railway men he was much applauded when he said: "T always accept an invitation to fight, but I hope to conduct my fights with fairness and justice." Jan. 28.
At a banquet to-day President Wilson, in an important speech in which the made a strong plea for military preparedness, emphasized how he had struggled to keep the peace but the liberty and honour of the Nation were more important.
He admitted that in his message to Congress he bad said that the need for preparedness was nob
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